Horseshoe



(ModeL) c. 0. JEROME. HORSESHOE.

No. 539,058. ate te -Ma 14, 1895.

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UNITED STATES:

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES o. .IEROMEQOE CHICAGO, IIILINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1%. 539,058,dated May 14,1895. application filed February 10, 1894. Serial No. 499.7 3, cadet T0aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. J ERoME, of Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare 'the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to an improvement in horse shoes.

Heretofore it has been proposed to provide a horse shoe with a solidwearing plate harder than the body of the shoe, this wearing platebeing, in some cases made continuous and in other instances composed ofmore than one of such solid plates. I have found in practice that inbending the shoe (the body of which I make of aluminium), the aluminiumis drawn away from the solid wearing plate (or plates) and the latterbecomes loosened, and

very frequently the shoe breaks where the corners of the steel platesare loosened from the aluminium by the shoe being bent. The object of myinvention is to overcome these objections, and to providea horse shoe ofaluminium, with a hardenedwearing face so constructed and applied to thebody of the shoe that said shoe can be readily bent to conform to thehoof of the horse to which it is to be applied, without loosening or inany manner interfering with the condition of the hardened wearing face,or its relation to the body of the shoe.

A further object is to render the application of a hardened wearingsurface to an aluminium horse shoe effectual and practicable in allrespects.

A further object is to provide an aluminium horse shoe with a hardenedwearing face which shall be so constructed and arranged that it shall beadapted when in use, to maintain the wearing face of the shoe at alltimes rough and thus prevent the horse to which the shoe shall beapplied, from slipping.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts ashereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a horseshoeembodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view showing another form oftheinvention.

A represents'a horse shoe madeof aluminium, having embedded or pressedinto its bottom face, finely divided material (preferably hardenedsteel) harder than the material of which the body of the shoe iscomposed. This finely divided steel I prefer to make in two forms, viz.,a number of spirals or coils a, and crushed steel particles b. Thespirals 0r coils a will be produced in any suitable manner andpreferably hardened afterward. These hardened steel spirals, coils, orbent or twisted strips, and the finely divided crushed steel particleswill be pressed into the under face of the shoe, throughout the wholeextent thereof, as shown in Fig. 1. It is not necessary that thespirals, coils, or strips be made separate, but they may be made of onecontinuous strip of steel and pressed into the bottom face of the shoe,as shown in Fig. 2, this'continuous series of spirals or coils thusforming a binding for the edge of the shoe as well (togetherwith theparticles of steel 5) as a protection for the whole wearing facethereof. By making the spirals in a continuous series, they can beapplied to the shoequicker than can the separate spirals, and, thiscontinuous series of spirals forming a binding for the outer edge of theshoe, will prevent any of the aluminium from being abraded by cominginto contact withthe ground, as would be the case should the aluminiumcome into contact with abrasive material on gravel roads. I

A horse shoe made in the manner above described is very effectualfin allrespects in the performance of its functions; can be cheaplymanufactured, and readily altered while cold to fit the hoof of anyhorse without disturbing, in any manner, the hardened Wearing face; andagain, by constructing the wearing face with finely divided materialharder than the material of which the body of the shoe is composed,'thewearing face will always remain rough, as the aluminium will wear awayfaster than the hardened steel, leaving the latter sharp and rough,which prevents slipping on roads, even asphalt or graphite pavements,thesteel being harder than any substance with which it will come intocontact.

ing arranged so that their edges will be flush with the wearing surface,substantially as described.

4. An aluminum horseshoe having spiral strips and ti nely dividedparticles of hardened metal permanently embedded in its wearing face,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. JEROME.

Witnesses:

A. B. ELLIOTT, G. L. F WARD.

